Without the slightest hesitation, Ye Ling directly activated the few runes that had already entered Xu Qianqin's body, transforming them into small devouring domains and ink spaces, beginning to seize Xu Qianqin's power!
"What did you do to me?"
Xu Qianqin felt a sharp pain in her neck, quickly released Ye Ling, grabbed her neck tightly with both hands, her eyes widened like copper bells, staring at Ye Ling and roaring.
"Guess for yourself!"
Ye Ling transformed some of the runes hidden in his blood back into spiritual energy, restoring his strength, and kicked Xu Qianqin in the face, sending her flying!
Then, Ye Ling activated the runes he had initially hidden in the blood dripped from his palm wound, making himself disappear from the spot and escape from here.
Previously, Ye Ling had cut his palm, letting his blood drip onto the ground. On one hand, he wanted to use his blood to lure Calvin to deal with Xu Qianqin, employing a strategy of using one tiger to attack another.
On the other hand, he also used a small portion of his spiritual energy to transform into rune imprints, hiding them in that blood, so that he could use the rune's spatial shift in a crisis to escape danger!
After temporarily escaping Xu Qianqin's sight, Ye Ling did not hesitate to separate his soul from his body, using runes to hide his soul, leaving his physical body lying on the cold floor.
Currently, Ye Ling still had Xu Qianqin's seal within his body. Xu Qianqin could likely find Ye Ling's location through that imprint, so Ye Ling could only temporarily abandon his physical body to evade Xu Qianqin's search.
Moreover, Ye Ling's physical body still contained some runes. Even if Xu Qianqin obtained Ye Ling's physical body, she likely wouldn't act against it for a while.
As expected, not long after Ye Ling separated from his physical body, Xu Qianqin's head flew out of the darkness, glaring at Ye Ling's body with a distorted expression, roaring, "Hero, you've hurt this concubine!"
As Xu Qianqin spoke, she re-wrapped her neck around Ye Ling's body. Sensing that Ye Ling's soul had disappeared, she had only obtained an empty shell.
"Hero, are you playing hide-and-seek with this concubine?"
Xu Qianqin wrapped her neck around Ye Ling's body, her head looking left and right, searching for Ye Ling's soul.
"Since Hero wants to play, this concubine will play with Hero!"
Xu Qianqin said, dragging Ye Ling's body into her domain. Then, her body grew numerous heads, spreading towards the surroundings of the dungeon.
"Humph~ humph~ Hero, where are you?"
Xu Qianqin's heads hummed little tunes, searching every corner of the dungeon. Their eerie singing made the entire dungeon incredibly chilling.
"This old witch is truly watertight!"
Ye Ling, hidden at the edge of the cell, watched the heads moving about in the cell, his brows furrowed to the extreme.
At that time, due to the urgency, when he separated his soul from his body, he hadn't managed to take much power with him. Currently, the runes he could use were at their limit for concealing his aura; he couldn't transform into devouring domains or ink spaces at all.
What was even more critical was that his soul power was also sealed by the masked man, so he couldn't transform his soul power into strength.
In other words, besides playing hide-and-seek with Xu Qianqin, he could do nothing else!
"If this continues, I'll probably be worn down and die here. I need to find a way to deal with this old witch..."
Ye Ling muttered to himself, his thoughts racing as he pondered a way to break the deadlock.
Even a powerful ancient fierce beast like Calvin was no match for Xu Qianqin. In Ye Ling's current state, confronting Xu Qianqin head-on would undoubtedly be suicidal!
"I can't confront Xu Qianqin head-on, so I can only find a way through the jailers..."
Ye Ling looked towards the outside of the cell. The dim corridor was extremely quiet.
"This cell has a barrier, and I can't get out. Currently, I only have my soul, and I can't cause any major disturbances. What other way can I lure the jailers over?"
Ye Ling closed his eyes and pondered. Xu Qianqin's head suddenly thrust in front of Ye Ling, sniffing with her nose, and then she moved away.
Ye Ling, sitting upright, remained motionless, appearing as steadfast as a rock.
However, this was only because Ye Ling was currently a soul and could not sweat.
Otherwise, with that move from Xu Qianqin just now, Ye Ling would probably have broken out in a cold sweat.
"This old witch's senses are too sharp. Fortunately, I was thinking just now and didn't notice my surroundings. Otherwise, with a move like that, I might have revealed a flaw."
Ye Ling let out a long sigh. After confirming that Xu Qianqin's heads had moved away, he began to carefully examine the environment outside the cell.
"I didn't notice it before, but now that I look closely, there seems to be another cell opposite us..."
Ye Ling's eyes narrowed slightly. He could vaguely see another cell opposite his own, but it was pitch black inside, and he couldn't tell what was imprisoned there.
As Ye Ling stared at the opposite cell, a streak of white flashed before his eyes.
"That's..."
Ye Ling saw the creature that flashed by in the opposite cell and was stunned, "A rabbit?"
Soon, a normal-sized white rabbit appeared at the entrance of the opposite cell, staring at Ye Ling.
"It... can see me?"
Ye Ling saw the rabbit staring at him and was even more surprised. He tentatively moved to the side.
The rabbit's gaze followed Ye Ling's soul as he moved.
"As expected, it can see the soul I've hidden with runes!" Ye Ling saw the rabbit's gaze following his movements and immediately confirmed his guess.
"Perhaps I can use that rabbit to make some noise and lure the jailers over!"
Seeing the peculiar rabbit, Ye Ling immediately used runes to transform a carrot in his hand and tempted the white rabbit, "Little white rabbit, do you want to eat this?"
The white rabbit in the opposite cell stared intently at Ye Ling, unmoved by the carrot in his hand.
"You don't like carrots?"
Ye Ling mumbled, then tried to transform the carrot in his hand into other fruits and vegetables, even grass... But no matter what food Ye Ling conjured, the rabbit showed no reaction, which made Ye Ling feel a bit frustrated.
"Damn it... What does this rabbit eat? Give me some reaction!"
Ye Ling couldn't help but curse. Then he saw a fierce beast that looked like a leopard quietly approaching the rabbit from behind, seemingly intending to hunt the rabbit!
"Oh no!"
Ye Ling's expression changed slightly as he saw the fierce beast behind the rabbit.
That rabbit was his only hope at the moment!
Just as Ye Ling was about to warn the rabbit, he saw the rabbit suddenly open its bloody maw, turn its head, and swallow the fierce beast in one bite!
Ye Ling was stunned on the spot.